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the carolina watchman equal a>*d exact jrsnce to all vol xijii no 8 salisbury n c thursday may 7 1896 established 1832 8wino1nq round the circle some timely topics foot and in need of the actual necessi ties of life this man would prefer tc have double the amount of money he ha6 received even if the dollars are of less value and even if as he is told the so-called honor of the govern ment and the trade relations of our country with other governments were a little strained press farmers of the south to force them to a slavery worse ibaa that en dured by the blacks ami to keep th m j and their children in perpetual abject poverty he who debits in his h.art to crnsh cut the old confederate veteran children and their neighbor < not possibly attain his object m r tainly and thoroughly than by joini ; the army of john sherman an t i to tight our people beneath the ; of the british gold btandaid there was created tine billion d â€¢! lars of war debi aud many more ions of debts prior to 1873 and before the gold standard was adopted all this va6t indebtedness was contract 1 | in what is called unsound money dollars that were worth in comparu with the present gold dollar fron > '^^ i cents to 16 cents thus we are pay ] from three tiun-s to six times the < r | inal vahie of the dollar and not i j this but every old veteran with a fam iiy to support is forced to i ay mire to i the current expenses ol th ment and the war debt than many millionaires in the east pay 1 donbt ! not but that each and < very old | legged or one-armed veteran in geoi j u'ia today aud every laborer ar | i more of the union war debt and cur rent expenses of the national govern | inent than hetty gr en u bo ii sai 1 : ) own 30,000,000 ol bonds which exempt from taxation god said . in the sweat of thy face i shalt thou tat thy bread an 1 tl i was never a better ox more e n i standard of values than that i ; man who h'>ne>tly toils is entitled j the fruits of bis labor and the schem i or government that deprives him ol i and forces from him more and moi his products for the bame dollar until double triple and six times i much is tuken is nothing more nor 1 â– 'â– a robber in 1864 the citizen could pay his 100 obligation with 33 1-3 mexi silver dollar the union sold iei r ceived his pay on the same scale fn 1873 the speculators had tbe i i increased by which they reaped al 3 for 1 invested in 1894 ihej skillfully manipulated the meae â€¢ â€¢ that it held six times as much as lh â– measure held in l*gi and th #â€¢ that could be paid in 1864 with 10 i p unds of cotton or 562 poac ' in 1873 required in 1894 1,550 poun if cotton ; aud thin is cuht d honest sound money measurement ; although the farmer's acre and p i and day's toil will produce ii i cotton now than it would in 1 s 7 an 1 1864 yet he is told that thin tn ery and measure is honest aixl better for him and his family stru kling under an immense load of pu ; and private debt at the same time this tale is whispered into the nnsus ! pecting ears of the farmer ; thesalai j man is told by them that he should ' â– all means favor the scheme of robi the producer for the reason that h â– | can buy the farmer's products for ; ; price the salaried man and w i earner is not told that by this bchei ! they too are paying war debts torn taxes pension interest etc at the fame rate the farmer pays they are pursuaded that the gÂ«id ii ! was devised and is maintain i bolely iii their interest and that pool wall street and the patriotic own government obligations really care for it only to help the people all the presidents of the dnil - from washington to line believed in and practiced bimeta they favored silver equally with they did not believe in a system that permitted speculators t corner one their mercy and l rce them t â– fire thi r i r , â€¢ rty and labor i g.jvtrnnient obligations and pi coiitn.i but il g war th d their priril je to pa .-;:. pthe speculator 1 eing thus . â– ! w ul i n t att â€¢ gold hmi force it ap to 21 the case but it tteuis '. : it i set has exereisi d a most pot cce on all the presidents bm int it is useless to undertake iofy the masses that it is to i rest to pliiy at a game th classes t â– accumulat imm â€¢ th.ir expens . and y the masses ar here is not as much property the united states n " a "- ' l884 when mr ch veland i r sident i :â– â– uv millions m re n â– â€¢ th i -. - have dot so much by i millions of dollars how can it i iunted for has god t i ul to as - has be v â€¢â– rains and it famines pestilen â€¢ -. war and ared out his wrath upon us he has done j"s l the these things then what i lation aod want ail i s i ssons above offer an â€¢ i to the trouble verily humanity to man make c tl usands to mourn 1 mean distress and privation t icer and dun & co report i range of prices this i prevailed in the i low prices also react on lal where there is distress and | in agriculture other laborers will its baleful effects wfa efited by it except the m - uijn have grent sur - â€¢â€¢ thus inposition to gi the pi 'â– ' n buying and c i i extort upon th cusi blessed is he that ,â€ž. r j w goumooth in a titution what the people are say ing and doing ei-gov campbell's warning to the dom oeratlc party all that ii left pf i he w1u be found with the fopu lists at st louis senator blackburn has been away from hla post of duty for three months trying to have himself re-elected as senator from kentucky during this time his salary has been going on at the rate of 400 or 500 a montt whiclj the people have to pay likewise senator jones has bean spending con siderable time in arkansas to the end c trongthening his political fences it s'-eins now that when a man i once elected to congress his sole object and greatest ambition is to keep right on succeeding hlnibslf â™¦ * * thia in all right but ha should make his record in congress ouch that the people could net bee their way clear tc spare him or exchange for another at it ia the average congressman has tc go home and explain things to hla con stituents and indulge in the usual de nunclatlons of the other fellows a machine that needs to be constantly greased is a poor excuse at any rate think of a webster a clay or a cal boun going home during the sssslon o congress to toot their own horn for re-election verily american statesman ship has the dry rot hosts for silvhr tf!k people are winning ri<;iii and lest a valliant fight being waged against the english goul standard advo cates of sound money becoming alarmed silver prohibitionists the ohio prohibition state conven tion at iis recent meeting at findlay occupied considerable time in discuss ing the fiuaneial plank in the plat form as reported by the committee on resolutions ", he free silver men were successful niid the convention de clared in favor of free coinage at a ratio of 16 to 1 the platform de | clared in favor of an income tax wo j nr.in suffrage government control of railroads and telegraph and main tains that import duties f-h"iild be levied only as a means of securing equitable commercial relations with other nations â€¢â€¢â€¢ no show for the bosses the diver men will have bis hundred or more volts in the national conven tion and they will be able to nominate a free coinage ruun without re-sorting to a repeal of the two-thirds rule it is not believed that whitney and brice will be able to change any votes in the convention wmtney haa auni.uuced himself for russell of massachusetts but with the democrats like it has been wi:;h the republicans the favorite son game will not work in the politics of this year the administration people are not only t^-ing to bring out favor ite son candidates in the northern states for president but after chasing after the delusive hope of breaking the silver vote in the south by proposing many southern men for vice president none of tlese schemes will be of avail within the next two weeks it will be clearly demonstrated that the free coinage democrats will control the convention and will nominate for president a man who is known to stand squarely upon that platform â€¢*â€¢ to boom bland the free coinage democrats of mis souri have net in motion a plan to cap j ture the kentucky delegation to the j chicago convention for bland a 1 conference to this end was held at the ! capital by leading free coinage dem ocrats including nearly all the mis souri delegates to chicago governor stone was made chairman i letters were read from prominent j kentuokiana and others all the < speakers thought kentucky could be se j cured for bland and that the effect of downing the administration goldbugs in carlisle's owu et.ite would secure bland's nomination it was resolved to draw upon town 1 ship clubs for a lobby delegation of j 10,000 shouting missourians an i xecutive si ssi in followed - state ; treasurer stevena opened the question | of revising the two-thirds rule in the national convention it was decided j that if i free coinage majority was i 'â– cted the rule sjj uld be changed to get a nomination by a majority and i thus make easy going fur bland a committee c nsisting of governor stone and five associates was appointed ! to push the bland buuin in every i quarter governor htune has accepted several i invitations to speak iu kentucky bis i native shx'u â€¢ â€¢ â€¢ we have befcre ue a report for the agricultural department it shows the corn crop of 1s94 to be 65,582,000 acres from which was gathered 1,212,770,000 bushels worth 554,719,000 the crop of 1s95 was 80,075 s30 acres from which waa gathered 2,151,139,000 bushels worth only 567,509,000 in other word 15,000,000 acres moro in area with about 950,000,000 more bushols in 1895 only brought 13,000,000 more money than the crop of 1s94 there's noth ing like having eomsthlng to eell you know with oats the farmer fared i am not discussing the matter in i the abstract i am only talking of the feeling of the planters i meet in every â– day life they admit that the gold j standard is a very great blessing to the man who has the gold but to the man the product of whose labor is measured by gold the blessing is not so appa j rent on the contrary he thinks that the single gold standard is something j of a curse and while he cannot be cer j tain whether a debased silver curreuey would make his condition any better i he at least is willing to try the experi j ment it may be that more prosper ous times may change the views of i these men but from what i kuow of | their feelings on the subject now they i are going to act and vute for any party that shows unqualified friendship j for silver the repeal of the shermau ] law gave them disappointiug results j the abortive tariff tinkering has not | been as beneficial as they had hoped j these questions for the time being settled they are going to hunt for a still further remedy for their trouble i am not discussing my personal views but simply give you aa far as i can judge the sentiments of the men upon j whose prosperity rests the bouth if : i have mistaken their feelings time ! will develop if but i have kept in pretty close contact with the producers j of what are especially known a the cotton state and do not think i can be mistaken about the almost universal opinion at this time hot shot from altgeld gov altgeld has written an open let ter in reply to the speech on the money question recently delivered at chicago by secretary carlisle he begins by quoting from mr carlisle's statement in 1878 in which the latter declared that the demonetization of silver which the characterized as a con spiracy would ultimately entail more misery upon the human race than all the wars pestilence and famine that ever occurred the absolute and instantaneous destruction of half the movable property of the world in cluding horses ships railroads and all other appliances for carrying on com merce while it would be felt more sen j bibly at the moment would not pro j duce anything like the prolonged dis tress and disorganization of society | that must inevitably result from the j permanent annihilation of one-half the metallic money of the world commenting upon this governor altgeld says i it will be seen that this language is clear and emphatic and has none of the sophistry and pettifogging about | it that are found in hi chicago speech | his awful predictions made ia 187 came to pass he not omy saw his l own prophesy fulfilled but he saw the ! misery of his country become even greater than he had predicted find ing that his views had bean correct he continued to hold th<_ru until he en tered mr cleveland's cabinet when in some mysterious mauner there was a change of heart but for some reason he seems unwilling to talk about it there are two other members of the cabinet hoke smith of georgia and herbert of alabama who like carlisle have made their voices heard fur nearly a lifetime de j mauding the re toration of silver and j denouncing the great conspiracy that ' i struck it down and strange to bay i when these two men entered < leve land's cabinet they underwent a change of heart and like carlisle they avoid \ talking about it why did not carlisle j throw a little light on this question all these men n->w denounce the people who are opposed to the single gold standard aa scoundrels and luna j ties ; yet they are only following the j 1 doctrines which carlisle and company preached are we to infer that mr cleveland and his two cabinet asso j dates were scoundrels and iunatiee un i til they got to be old men and that the tinsel of a cabin t position not only made them honest but gave them brains carlisle should have told us governor altgeld then enunciaies beveral questions which he says mr carlisle bhould have answered timon j them being this . wby it war that for s200 years gold and silyer held the market ratio of about 15j to 1 while the ratio fixed by i law was i."5 to 1 in h i trie 15 j to 1 in most countries and for awhile i 16 to 1 in our country wby it vrn that in every country where silver was stricken down a was done by the arbitrary act of the government and that neither com merce nor business had anything to do with it as then - innot be a g neral rife in prices with nt an increase in the volume of money must not the present parity bystem and stagnation continue until the volume of jnoi again restored to what it was before ! silver was stricken down referring to th rcc nl bond iseues governor altgeld ebarg â– i president enable 1 n friend an i i rtuor client in association wi1 speculators to make 9,0 000,000 out oi the government a few weeks in a small i â– ' fcion under the pretext that th i of wall street had agreed to pr the government against gold raids un til the following noveml r that is the wealthiest the most enterprising the most powerful the most indus trious and the most thrifty nation on the globe paid tribute to a small band of speculators for protection *â€¢* the british gold standard the man wh > avora the scheme oi the gold standardists is c rtaioly pur euin the course best calculated to op uncle sam grover you'r making me dizzy why don't you use both oars and go straight ahead â€” na tional bimetallism fellei skizens i am no offia seeker like the dad gummed populists but at the urgent solibitashun uv millyuna uv ml frend3 i hav konsented tu leev mi peeceful home and la doun fur the time beein mi okkupashun az a plain onest farmer ar jekum ycor kandydait fur ! the responsibel offld uv aheruff j cheers feller sitizens in makin this j grait sacrlfize i want tu sa i du it with du appresiashun uv the onerous du'.lze uv he offis tu whitch i i meno mi j fren.de hav asked me tu p.spire vjuu want tu kno uv kcrse be4 you fur me what mi politix iz i want tu sa rite here tha air jist the salm az yourn great and tremendous np } plauze tu the men whoo boieov in a ' gold standard i want tu sa when tobe i spilkins iz sheruff he wil let you pa j yoor fines and taxes in gold not mutch ! applauze tu the fre silver men you kin pa yoor's in silver and the paper munny men kin pa tliair'a in paper munny applauze and tu the men whoo hain't got enny munny at aul i ! want tu sa i wil talk the taxes in koon skins and heffers aufful site uv ap â– plauze feller sltizens i stand with j you aul on the tariff applauze i j beleev in a hi tariff on sum thing3 a i low taruff on sum things and fre traid in sum things and what tariff we have adjusted fur revenu only tremen dous applauze i'm oppozed tu nash nul banks applauze eggscept when we think it iz nesseasary apnlauze i'm . oppozed tu the ishue uv bonds ap plauze only when we nede munny cheers i'm in faver uv home rool fur demik'-its appluaze and federul trupes fur the republikans and popu lists wild and enthusiastic applauze i'm in faver uv them whoo wants an inkum tacks a havin it applauze and them whoo don't want it not havin it applauze my daddy wuz a demiluat applauze and i never scratched a tick et in ml life great eggscitement and loud cheering.i i luv the grand old demlkratick party applauze with its brilyant rekord and eminent etaitsmen i < applauze i wil never see its banner traled in the dust loud cheers lt*s i a grand old party cheers it's got more prinsiples on tap than enny other party ever thought uv cheers it stands reddy tu reseev ennyboddy that wants tu kum lntu its shelterin fold and it don't maik enny differents what he beleevs cheerb we have taken out patents on ninetene kinds of dem ikrats and have patents for seven raoar kinds applide fur no applauze let pvery demikrat du hiz duty boys stand bl the grand old party wunts moar let us voat er strate let the seeride ranks kloze up and form a eolid falanx whose majestick tred kin be heerd from the rok bound shores uv nu ingland tu the golden gait uv kal iforny and from the ehimmerin laiks tu the gulf uv mecksiko let the band pla loud and prolonged cheering you see i hav insurted the cheers and applauze at the proper plalses and when i am maikin mi speach and kum tu them i maik a sine tu the uther kandydaits and tha start the applauze i think this iz the best plan az you air aulwaze tshure uv the applauze and , git it right whair it iz needed and whair you want it if that speach don't fetch em i don't kno what wil it don't seme tu me like ennyboddy cood j find enny fait with it seniter jones and guvernor clark iz | havin a talkin match in mi stalt now j tha both want tu be seniters clark \ kin bÂ«et seniter jones a gpittin and kin hold him a purty level rase a prom isin good tilings tu the peeple but i don't think clark kin beet jim jones | becoz jim haz a bigger salary tu spend ' than clark i hoap i'll git tu bee sher | uff yours til the kows kum home tobe spilkins whoo wantb tu bee eheruff tsolilbujj l'ralao for populists the following encomium from the j ! goldbug oregonian on the populist ; party will make thousands of voteb for ] the army of reformers in the coming ; elections 1 for the free-silver man whether ho ; ; pretends to bo a republican or demo crat there is no logical stopping place ; ! or ground to stand on short of the popu i list camp there is where he belongs j for the populist party is the only party | that haa committed itself on any na j tionai platform to free coinage of silver i when therefore men who insist on j free coinage of silver like hon c f yates of washington county and hon j sylvester pennoyer of multnomah \ ' county take formal leave of the repub ] ! iic-an and democratic parties and cast \ i their ot with the populist organization ! they do a logical necessary and ' ; straightforward thing the populist j party is the eilver-money party wa seldom have an opportunity to ! i copy the truth from any of rothschild's j j organs but the oregonian of march i 5 1896 admits the fact that there is [ 'â€¢ no room in the army of avarice flaunt ! i ing the banner of the demo-republican | ! combination for an honest silver man no one can serve in either of roths child's political parties without leaving [ i country home liberty prosperity and j i happiness behind it is only the cap j j tains and generals the bosses and cor ruptionists of the two old parties who live upon the fat of the land and enjoy | tho crumbs which fall from the table ! of gold aristocracy honest men in the ranks of gold monopoly are as | much out of place as christians obey i ing the commands of the father of lies j who offered to the savior of mankind j aa large a bribe as the kings of avarice ever offered for the worship and sub mission of the masses to the rule oi the classes what honest man can view universal distresg in a country of un : i bounded resources and inhabited by | j seventy millions of the most enterprls j ing and energetic people on earth j without indignation against the eon i spirators who produced the ruin when ! the oregcnian says that the populist i party ie the only party against hard i times is the only party that repudiates i alien rule ia the only party that is j opposed to bonded slavery is the only i party that ia in favor of preserving the i institutions of america is the only party of liberty truth and equal rights ' it commends the populiat party in lan guage of eulogy which cannot be sur passed if it be true that the populist i party is the only party in favor of i americans ruling america and against the subjugation of this country to the ! english gold standard and the oppres ! j sion and extortion of the agents and \ j emissaries cf the mother country what j name is thoro in the english language which shines brighter and ia more em blematic of our institutions than the i name populist which is already ; glorious by the enemies it hoe made ' the commendation of the oregonian has removed every objection that any i honest man can have to join the popu ; i lists in a common cause against the i iniquities which the oregonian cher i ishes and for which it lives and has ! its being don't be alarmed mr oregonian the silver men and populists and all other | good men will get together to fight j your kind and every other kind who ; are in favor of the enemies of the re i public you have drawn the line be i ! tween honest american citizens and ! tory corruptionists of the gold stand i ard the people will take you at your word silver knight both the old parties are in favor of control of railroads the omaha plat i form favors ownership and when it was put there it was supposed to be a fundamental principle of the plat form worse he received about 50,000,000 less for 824,444,000 bushels in 1895 than he did for 662,03(5,929 bushels in 1894 the farmer has been producing on a falling market for twenty-five years , while the money lenders crop has been advancing in value and the former has been voting for so-called honest dollars instead of honest bushela â€¢ â€¢ â™¦ soon after the present congress met congressman joe cannon speaking ol what would likely be accomplished said : there'll be a lot of flddlln an talk in 1 an resolutin ah lnvebtlgatin an blufiln 1 an makln facea an playin buncombe an firin the popular heart but when we get through we'll find we have not done a blamed thing but pass the appropriation bills and this is just what congress has been doing and is doing and is all it intends to do Â» â€¢ â€¢ tho st louis globe-Â£)emocrat is wor ried over the action of the southern re publicans in a recent issue it says if the southern republicans would fight the democrats with aa much energy aa they fight one another their party would have more reason to point to them with pride the trouble with the southern repub licans is that they have nothing to fight for but spoils and there is not enough of that to go around the re publicans in the south stand about a much show as a one-legged man would in a foot-race of course th6re are a few localities where they succeed in electing county officers but it only results in anovher set of men drawing the salaries when a republican president is elected the federal pie counter is also open to as pirants â€” and there's no dearth of them then during a presidential year a dele gate's vote is worth something it hag a market value â€” sometimes it has two of them of course the south is not ex pected to furnish a single electoral vote but all presidential aspirants look to the southern field as a more or less profitable one to invest what spare cash he has it is bometinieb reported that the man who buys last buys best this is perhaps the reason there is so much wrangling among the southern republi cans * â€¢ â€¢ ex-gov campbell has warned the democratic party of the danger which beset it i say it with firmness he exclaims for it is my unqualified be lief that bhould the party be split at the chicago convention it will then and there meet its death it was in the national democratic convention in 18s2 that henry watterson baid that if cleveland was nominated the party would march through the slaughter house to an open grave the slaughter house ecene has been experienced and now in the defection in the party which promises a split at the chicago conven tion is the open grave which got campbell sees but how to avoid it is the question cleveland carlisle and co are riding the party with a rough spur it is being lashed along the geld standard road at a furious rate sena tors jones vest harris and others it is true have bound themselves to the flying chariot and declared their pur pose to follow it to the jmnping-ofl place but there are tillman bryan and others who are not ed pliable the question now is will they bolt the chi cago convention and what influence will it have on the rank and file if they do missouri will send a free silver dele gation to the chicago contention trat it will do no good aa a straddle on the viiver question ib all it can expect the omaha platform is a very good document what we ueed most is man hood to contend for it san tniiian od ciirrenr-.v mr s m iuman a prominent at lanta business man and well kmr.vn throughout ihera a i wÂ»3 interviewed in april oflastyear j ist twelvemonths nj t o l,y the (;!!<â€¢!;. i-ii enquirer and the following is clip i from that paper i dii the southern planters ieei that llu'ir interest lies la the i c j il^i i i tiit i ' ) n of silver in thi i im â€¢ ratio tbaf the western farm i c â€¢:â– 'â– a is it will benefit him and to thi â€¢;â– : sti n mr la nlan repli d : iff know the eontbern planters there is a m ri pro r onad sentiment in favor of silver em ing them than in al caost any part of the couatrj with th m a silvei currency would bs hailed as a blessing tb ugh it drove gold irctilation and to i prtni'iioi the uider ones remember the times after the war when on hoc lit of the premium on goli ihe exporters who drew against r ittoa in gold paid 3 to 5 cents per ; dud 1 a i utrodftl for their cotton on acconnt of this the money paid them was the money of their country the m ney that paid tii ii i 13 -, p â– .' i th r lab r . h.iught thdr supplies â– â€¢;. 1 paid their debts thi-v argue that i -.< id was nt n premium of i :â– â€¢ -. inst i i of re ceiving-5 to 6 c uts for cott n they would receive 7 to 8 cents and ibo difference to the planters oa this cotton crop would have been 10 '." |;|. 600 in their favor that many m re dollars wouid have gone into the south < rn states and though th y might not iuve had . qnal | urch i in - p er with gold it wo'ul i hav m id â€¢ i m rv lous difference in the ; ings of the m-n â– ile i an : w mid ; . ive save 1 manv a man from the sheriff even if the was i ho thi silver of mexico worth only < n half as much as gold eatnt ci p w ; ;! 1 have t^oll foi 250,000,0^0 m re of thete dollars than it h . i from the planter's btand i oint hi v . . pi :â€¢ i s50 per bale in stea t of 25 â€¢ r ;, ; -. cotton even if the liars v re not quite to good it if l>cji'i:iv so with the poorer classes o o.>tton producers who under the ., - c nditicjns havs a bird life of it a year of hard work sneh as m q in m re comfortable position k r.y very little about an^l aftei l his cotton for less than il c ista him to roake it hia children bare mr tobe spilkins he thinks pol1t1c3 are very badly mixed mikei him sweat to keep vp â€” would teave the democratic party if ho did not want to be sheriff 80 had â€” describes nineteen kinds of democrats tron megan's buzz-srr.v hardy ark boney forks which lz in the stait uv arkansaw february the 6teei tb lmiinetyg mistur editur thing is gittin au fully mixed up i'll be dad gummed if i hain't gittin tired uv this polltix biznes if it wuzou't fur bein sheruff i'd leev the dod dratted party it hain't no longer a solid falanx like it wuz when i coodea't git the nomina ehun fur nuthin now when i kin git the nominashun fur a good offis t.la air quarllin and fuspin like dogs and kats i never wuz so puzzeled tu kno how tu bee a democrat in mi l!fe thare hain't no recete nor formulay that will bute aul okkashuns god knobe i tri tu bee a demikrat fur i want tu be sheruff so bad but it maiks me swet the trubbel now iz i don't kno whitch kind uv a demikrat tu be thar iz tu ml nollege ninetene kinds uv dimikrats az toilers the goldbug demikrats the free silver demikrats the national bank demikrats the government issue demikrati the high tariff demikrats the low tariff demikrats the tariff fur revenu demikrats the fre traid demikrats the bond iehuin demikratb â€¢ the anti-bond ishuin demikrats the home rool demikratb the federal trupes demikrats the grencbak demikrats the hard munny demikrat the my daddy wuz demikratb the inkum tarks demikrats the no inkum tacks demikrats the phool ivniikrats whoo don't j want offis the smart demikrats whoo duz tlinre ma be earn mher varietize but i kan't think uv them now and i hoap tha won't git offended bekoz i fale tu menshun thair partikular va riety now what puzzels me iz whair did aul these varietize kum frum tha coodent kum frum the saim ansesters and it looks like sumboddy haz bin goin awa frum hoam and krossin the brede tha hain't no 3ifferents fce twene sum uv theze demikrats and the republikans if sum uv our leeders hain't bin sleepin with republikan harlots then i hain't no judg uv oph spring and kan't tell a mulatter frum a ful bludded nigger whitch i think i kin thare wuz a time when you cood tel n demikrat bl the wa he talked but cow you haf tu see him voat be4 you kin kno the only sines left uv old demokraey that kin be rekonized with out ldentyflkaehun iz our luv fur lik ker and our lnklinashun tu kuss the republikans under theze tryln'.surkembtan3es it lz very difflkult tu run fur offis with enny kind uv eatisfakshun when a man runs fur offla he iz ex pekted to sa sumthing in order tu git tu bee sheruff i cood kepe mi mouth shut and be a nlnetene-sided demikrat but tu talk enny tu speek uv and sute aul kinds uv demikrats iz a fete that iz hard tu du i hav bin thinkln over what kind uv a speach i wood malk in this kampane and have rit out what i am goin tu sa i think it will kiver aul kinds uv demikrata*and not maik rnny uv em mad here iz mi speach in substants gresham'9 remains dtotaterred the remains of ex-secretary â€¢ tate gres-ham were disinterred at 3hic^o thursday for the purpose ol oeing interred at washington v u i$%wwm ha p r iii "*"â– _=*-â€”__? _____=â€¢- â€” v sc^':-'-v -' c>.l \: y s<s*z&&i ac lwl t__l i Â£ -- o il "â– -> s ts_^iv ; . * v â– %'/â– < ff>?dj f>?_s s-sst-f j_l Â«-_^ â€” -. sfs'-z-r jss /â– â– i y l "*<< 'â– 'â– â– vv f^f f "^ a i____i_f^_3 -_-<?^ â– - "^ m_?mf ; - / '" ; v Â¥ â€” : f -*. f r - â– '/*! is - - ri ; s __; wffl

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the carolina watchman equal a>*d exact jrsnce to all vol xijii no 8 salisbury n c thursday may 7 1896 established 1832 8wino1nq round the circle some timely topics foot and in need of the actual necessi ties of life this man would prefer tc have double the amount of money he ha6 received even if the dollars are of less value and even if as he is told the so-called honor of the govern ment and the trade relations of our country with other governments were a little strained press farmers of the south to force them to a slavery worse ibaa that en dured by the blacks ami to keep th m j and their children in perpetual abject poverty he who debits in his h.art to crnsh cut the old confederate veteran children and their neighbor < not possibly attain his object m r tainly and thoroughly than by joini ; the army of john sherman an t i to tight our people beneath the ; of the british gold btandaid there was created tine billion d â€¢! lars of war debi aud many more ions of debts prior to 1873 and before the gold standard was adopted all this va6t indebtedness was contract 1 | in what is called unsound money dollars that were worth in comparu with the present gold dollar fron > '^^ i cents to 16 cents thus we are pay ] from three tiun-s to six times the < r | inal vahie of the dollar and not i j this but every old veteran with a fam iiy to support is forced to i ay mire to i the current expenses ol th ment and the war debt than many millionaires in the east pay 1 donbt ! not but that each and < very old | legged or one-armed veteran in geoi j u'ia today aud every laborer ar | i more of the union war debt and cur rent expenses of the national govern | inent than hetty gr en u bo ii sai 1 : ) own 30,000,000 ol bonds which exempt from taxation god said . in the sweat of thy face i shalt thou tat thy bread an 1 tl i was never a better ox more e n i standard of values than that i ; man who h'>ne>tly toils is entitled j the fruits of bis labor and the schem i or government that deprives him ol i and forces from him more and moi his products for the bame dollar until double triple and six times i much is tuken is nothing more nor 1 â– 'â– a robber in 1864 the citizen could pay his 100 obligation with 33 1-3 mexi silver dollar the union sold iei r ceived his pay on the same scale fn 1873 the speculators had tbe i i increased by which they reaped al 3 for 1 invested in 1894 ihej skillfully manipulated the meae â€¢ â€¢ that it held six times as much as lh â– measure held in l*gi and th #â€¢ that could be paid in 1864 with 10 i p unds of cotton or 562 poac ' in 1873 required in 1894 1,550 poun if cotton ; aud thin is cuht d honest sound money measurement ; although the farmer's acre and p i and day's toil will produce ii i cotton now than it would in 1 s 7 an 1 1864 yet he is told that thin tn ery and measure is honest aixl better for him and his family stru kling under an immense load of pu ; and private debt at the same time this tale is whispered into the nnsus ! pecting ears of the farmer ; thesalai j man is told by them that he should ' â– all means favor the scheme of robi the producer for the reason that h â– | can buy the farmer's products for ; ; price the salaried man and w i earner is not told that by this bchei ! they too are paying war debts torn taxes pension interest etc at the fame rate the farmer pays they are pursuaded that the gÂ«id ii ! was devised and is maintain i bolely iii their interest and that pool wall street and the patriotic own government obligations really care for it only to help the people all the presidents of the dnil - from washington to line believed in and practiced bimeta they favored silver equally with they did not believe in a system that permitted speculators t corner one their mercy and l rce them t â– fire thi r i r , â€¢ rty and labor i g.jvtrnnient obligations and pi coiitn.i but il g war th d their priril je to pa .-;:. pthe speculator 1 eing thus . â– ! w ul i n t att â€¢ gold hmi force it ap to 21 the case but it tteuis '. : it i set has exereisi d a most pot cce on all the presidents bm int it is useless to undertake iofy the masses that it is to i rest to pliiy at a game th classes t â– accumulat imm â€¢ th.ir expens . and y the masses ar here is not as much property the united states n " a "- ' l884 when mr ch veland i r sident i :â– â– uv millions m re n â– â€¢ th i -. - have dot so much by i millions of dollars how can it i iunted for has god t i ul to as - has be v â€¢â– rains and it famines pestilen â€¢ -. war and ared out his wrath upon us he has done j"s l the these things then what i lation aod want ail i s i ssons above offer an â€¢ i to the trouble verily humanity to man make c tl usands to mourn 1 mean distress and privation t icer and dun & co report i range of prices this i prevailed in the i low prices also react on lal where there is distress and | in agriculture other laborers will its baleful effects wfa efited by it except the m - uijn have grent sur - â€¢â€¢ thus inposition to gi the pi 'â– ' n buying and c i i extort upon th cusi blessed is he that ,â€ž. r j w goumooth in a titution what the people are say ing and doing ei-gov campbell's warning to the dom oeratlc party all that ii left pf i he w1u be found with the fopu lists at st louis senator blackburn has been away from hla post of duty for three months trying to have himself re-elected as senator from kentucky during this time his salary has been going on at the rate of 400 or 500 a montt whiclj the people have to pay likewise senator jones has bean spending con siderable time in arkansas to the end c trongthening his political fences it s'-eins now that when a man i once elected to congress his sole object and greatest ambition is to keep right on succeeding hlnibslf â™¦ * * thia in all right but ha should make his record in congress ouch that the people could net bee their way clear tc spare him or exchange for another at it ia the average congressman has tc go home and explain things to hla con stituents and indulge in the usual de nunclatlons of the other fellows a machine that needs to be constantly greased is a poor excuse at any rate think of a webster a clay or a cal boun going home during the sssslon o congress to toot their own horn for re-election verily american statesman ship has the dry rot hosts for silvhr tf!k people are winning riw denounce the people who are opposed to the single gold standard aa scoundrels and luna j ties ; yet they are only following the j 1 doctrines which carlisle and company preached are we to infer that mr cleveland and his two cabinet asso j dates were scoundrels and iunatiee un i til they got to be old men and that the tinsel of a cabin t position not only made them honest but gave them brains carlisle should have told us governor altgeld then enunciaies beveral questions which he says mr carlisle bhould have answered timon j them being this . wby it war that for s200 years gold and silyer held the market ratio of about 15j to 1 while the ratio fixed by i law was i."5 to 1 in h i trie 15 j to 1 in most countries and for awhile i 16 to 1 in our country wby it vrn that in every country where silver was stricken down a was done by the arbitrary act of the government and that neither com merce nor business had anything to do with it as then - innot be a g neral rife in prices with nt an increase in the volume of money must not the present parity bystem and stagnation continue until the volume of jnoi again restored to what it was before ! silver was stricken down referring to th rcc nl bond iseues governor altgeld ebarg â– i president enable 1 n friend an i i rtuor client in association wi1 speculators to make 9,0 000,000 out oi the government a few weeks in a small i â– ' fcion under the pretext that th i of wall street had agreed to pr the government against gold raids un til the following noveml r that is the wealthiest the most enterprising the most powerful the most indus trious and the most thrifty nation on the globe paid tribute to a small band of speculators for protection *â€¢* the british gold standard the man wh > avora the scheme oi the gold standardists is c rtaioly pur euin the course best calculated to op uncle sam grover you'r making me dizzy why don't you use both oars and go straight ahead â€” na tional bimetallism fellei skizens i am no offia seeker like the dad gummed populists but at the urgent solibitashun uv millyuna uv ml frend3 i hav konsented tu leev mi peeceful home and la doun fur the time beein mi okkupashun az a plain onest farmer ar jekum ycor kandydait fur ! the responsibel offld uv aheruff j cheers feller sitizens in makin this j grait sacrlfize i want tu sa i du it with du appresiashun uv the onerous du'.lze uv he offis tu whitch i i meno mi j fren.de hav asked me tu p.spire vjuu want tu kno uv kcrse be4 you fur me what mi politix iz i want tu sa rite here tha air jist the salm az yourn great and tremendous np } plauze tu the men whoo boieov in a ' gold standard i want tu sa when tobe i spilkins iz sheruff he wil let you pa j yoor fines and taxes in gold not mutch ! applauze tu the fre silver men you kin pa yoor's in silver and the paper munny men kin pa tliair'a in paper munny applauze and tu the men whoo hain't got enny munny at aul i ! want tu sa i wil talk the taxes in koon skins and heffers aufful site uv ap â– plauze feller sltizens i stand with j you aul on the tariff applauze i j beleev in a hi tariff on sum thing3 a i low taruff on sum things and fre traid in sum things and what tariff we have adjusted fur revenu only tremen dous applauze i'm oppozed tu nash nul banks applauze eggscept when we think it iz nesseasary apnlauze i'm . oppozed tu the ishue uv bonds ap plauze only when we nede munny cheers i'm in faver uv home rool fur demik'-its appluaze and federul trupes fur the republikans and popu lists wild and enthusiastic applauze i'm in faver uv them whoo wants an inkum tacks a havin it applauze and them whoo don't want it not havin it applauze my daddy wuz a demiluat applauze and i never scratched a tick et in ml life great eggscitement and loud cheering.i i luv the grand old demlkratick party applauze with its brilyant rekord and eminent etaitsmen i < applauze i wil never see its banner traled in the dust loud cheers lt*s i a grand old party cheers it's got more prinsiples on tap than enny other party ever thought uv cheers it stands reddy tu reseev ennyboddy that wants tu kum lntu its shelterin fold and it don't maik enny differents what he beleevs cheerb we have taken out patents on ninetene kinds of dem ikrats and have patents for seven raoar kinds applide fur no applauze let pvery demikrat du hiz duty boys stand bl the grand old party wunts moar let us voat er strate let the seeride ranks kloze up and form a eolid falanx whose majestick tred kin be heerd from the rok bound shores uv nu ingland tu the golden gait uv kal iforny and from the ehimmerin laiks tu the gulf uv mecksiko let the band pla loud and prolonged cheering you see i hav insurted the cheers and applauze at the proper plalses and when i am maikin mi speach and kum tu them i maik a sine tu the uther kandydaits and tha start the applauze i think this iz the best plan az you air aulwaze tshure uv the applauze and , git it right whair it iz needed and whair you want it if that speach don't fetch em i don't kno what wil it don't seme tu me like ennyboddy cood j find enny fait with it seniter jones and guvernor clark iz | havin a talkin match in mi stalt now j tha both want tu be seniters clark \ kin bÂ«et seniter jones a gpittin and kin hold him a purty level rase a prom isin good tilings tu the peeple but i don't think clark kin beet jim jones | becoz jim haz a bigger salary tu spend ' than clark i hoap i'll git tu bee sher | uff yours til the kows kum home tobe spilkins whoo wantb tu bee eheruff tsolilbujj l'ralao for populists the following encomium from the j ! goldbug oregonian on the populist ; party will make thousands of voteb for ] the army of reformers in the coming ; elections 1 for the free-silver man whether ho ; ; pretends to bo a republican or demo crat there is no logical stopping place ; ! or ground to stand on short of the popu i list camp there is where he belongs j for the populist party is the only party | that haa committed itself on any na j tionai platform to free coinage of silver i when therefore men who insist on j free coinage of silver like hon c f yates of washington county and hon j sylvester pennoyer of multnomah \ ' county take formal leave of the repub ] ! iic-an and democratic parties and cast \ i their ot with the populist organization ! they do a logical necessary and ' ; straightforward thing the populist j party is the eilver-money party wa seldom have an opportunity to ! i copy the truth from any of rothschild's j j organs but the oregonian of march i 5 1896 admits the fact that there is [ 'â€¢ no room in the army of avarice flaunt ! i ing the banner of the demo-republican | ! combination for an honest silver man no one can serve in either of roths child's political parties without leaving [ i country home liberty prosperity and j i happiness behind it is only the cap j j tains and generals the bosses and cor ruptionists of the two old parties who live upon the fat of the land and enjoy | tho crumbs which fall from the table ! of gold aristocracy honest men in the ranks of gold monopoly are as | much out of place as christians obey i ing the commands of the father of lies j who offered to the savior of mankind j aa large a bribe as the kings of avarice ever offered for the worship and sub mission of the masses to the rule oi the classes what honest man can view universal distresg in a country of un : i bounded resources and inhabited by | j seventy millions of the most enterprls j ing and energetic people on earth j without indignation against the eon i spirators who produced the ruin when ! the oregcnian says that the populist i party ie the only party against hard i times is the only party that repudiates i alien rule ia the only party that is j opposed to bonded slavery is the only i party that ia in favor of preserving the i institutions of america is the only party of liberty truth and equal rights ' it commends the populiat party in lan guage of eulogy which cannot be sur passed if it be true that the populist i party is the only party in favor of i americans ruling america and against the subjugation of this country to the ! english gold standard and the oppres ! j sion and extortion of the agents and \ j emissaries cf the mother country what j name is thoro in the english language which shines brighter and ia more em blematic of our institutions than the i name populist which is already ; glorious by the enemies it hoe made ' the commendation of the oregonian has removed every objection that any i honest man can have to join the popu ; i lists in a common cause against the i iniquities which the oregonian cher i ishes and for which it lives and has ! its being don't be alarmed mr oregonian the silver men and populists and all other | good men will get together to fight j your kind and every other kind who ; are in favor of the enemies of the re i public you have drawn the line be i ! tween honest american citizens and ! tory corruptionists of the gold stand i ard the people will take you at your word silver knight both the old parties are in favor of control of railroads the omaha plat i form favors ownership and when it was put there it was supposed to be a fundamental principle of the plat form worse he received about 50,000,000 less for 824,444,000 bushels in 1895 than he did for 662,03(5,929 bushels in 1894 the farmer has been producing on a falling market for twenty-five years , while the money lenders crop has been advancing in value and the former has been voting for so-called honest dollars instead of honest bushela â€¢ â€¢ â™¦ soon after the present congress met congressman joe cannon speaking ol what would likely be accomplished said : there'll be a lot of flddlln an talk in 1 an resolutin ah lnvebtlgatin an blufiln 1 an makln facea an playin buncombe an firin the popular heart but when we get through we'll find we have not done a blamed thing but pass the appropriation bills and this is just what congress has been doing and is doing and is all it intends to do Â» â€¢ â€¢ tho st louis globe-Â£)emocrat is wor ried over the action of the southern re publicans in a recent issue it says if the southern republicans would fight the democrats with aa much energy aa they fight one another their party would have more reason to point to them with pride the trouble with the southern repub licans is that they have nothing to fight for but spoils and there is not enough of that to go around the re publicans in the south stand about a much show as a one-legged man would in a foot-race of course th6re are a few localities where they succeed in electing county officers but it only results in anovher set of men drawing the salaries when a republican president is elected the federal pie counter is also open to as pirants â€” and there's no dearth of them then during a presidential year a dele gate's vote is worth something it hag a market value â€” sometimes it has two of them of course the south is not ex pected to furnish a single electoral vote but all presidential aspirants look to the southern field as a more or less profitable one to invest what spare cash he has it is bometinieb reported that the man who buys last buys best this is perhaps the reason there is so much wrangling among the southern republi cans * â€¢ â€¢ ex-gov campbell has warned the democratic party of the danger which beset it i say it with firmness he exclaims for it is my unqualified be lief that bhould the party be split at the chicago convention it will then and there meet its death it was in the national democratic convention in 18s2 that henry watterson baid that if cleveland was nominated the party would march through the slaughter house to an open grave the slaughter house ecene has been experienced and now in the defection in the party which promises a split at the chicago conven tion is the open grave which got campbell sees but how to avoid it is the question cleveland carlisle and co are riding the party with a rough spur it is being lashed along the geld standard road at a furious rate sena tors jones vest harris and others it is true have bound themselves to the flying chariot and declared their pur pose to follow it to the jmnping-ofl place but there are tillman bryan and others who are not ed pliable the question now is will they bolt the chi cago convention and what influence will it have on the rank and file if they do missouri will send a free silver dele gation to the chicago contention trat it will do no good aa a straddle on the viiver question ib all it can expect the omaha platform is a very good document what we ueed most is man hood to contend for it san tniiian od ciirrenr-.v mr s m iuman a prominent at lanta business man and well kmr.vn throughout ihera a i wÂ»3 interviewed in april oflastyear j ist twelvemonths nj t o l,y the (;!!cji'i:iv so with the poorer classes o o.>tton producers who under the ., - c nditicjns havs a bird life of it a year of hard work sneh as m q in m re comfortable position k r.y very little about an^l aftei l his cotton for less than il c ista him to roake it hia children bare mr tobe spilkins he thinks pol1t1c3 are very badly mixed mikei him sweat to keep vp â€” would teave the democratic party if ho did not want to be sheriff 80 had â€” describes nineteen kinds of democrats tron megan's buzz-srr.v hardy ark boney forks which lz in the stait uv arkansaw february the 6teei tb lmiinetyg mistur editur thing is gittin au fully mixed up i'll be dad gummed if i hain't gittin tired uv this polltix biznes if it wuzou't fur bein sheruff i'd leev the dod dratted party it hain't no longer a solid falanx like it wuz when i coodea't git the nomina ehun fur nuthin now when i kin git the nominashun fur a good offis t.la air quarllin and fuspin like dogs and kats i never wuz so puzzeled tu kno how tu bee a democrat in mi l!fe thare hain't no recete nor formulay that will bute aul okkashuns god knobe i tri tu bee a demikrat fur i want tu be sheruff so bad but it maiks me swet the trubbel now iz i don't kno whitch kind uv a demikrat tu be thar iz tu ml nollege ninetene kinds uv dimikrats az toilers the goldbug demikrats the free silver demikrats the national bank demikrats the government issue demikrati the high tariff demikrats the low tariff demikrats the tariff fur revenu demikrats the fre traid demikrats the bond iehuin demikratb â€¢ the anti-bond ishuin demikrats the home rool demikratb the federal trupes demikrats the grencbak demikrats the hard munny demikrat the my daddy wuz demikratb the inkum tarks demikrats the no inkum tacks demikrats the phool ivniikrats whoo don't j want offis the smart demikrats whoo duz tlinre ma be earn mher varietize but i kan't think uv them now and i hoap tha won't git offended bekoz i fale tu menshun thair partikular va riety now what puzzels me iz whair did aul these varietize kum frum tha coodent kum frum the saim ansesters and it looks like sumboddy haz bin goin awa frum hoam and krossin the brede tha hain't no 3ifferents fce twene sum uv theze demikrats and the republikans if sum uv our leeders hain't bin sleepin with republikan harlots then i hain't no judg uv oph spring and kan't tell a mulatter frum a ful bludded nigger whitch i think i kin thare wuz a time when you cood tel n demikrat bl the wa he talked but cow you haf tu see him voat be4 you kin kno the only sines left uv old demokraey that kin be rekonized with out ldentyflkaehun iz our luv fur lik ker and our lnklinashun tu kuss the republikans under theze tryln'.surkembtan3es it lz very difflkult tu run fur offis with enny kind uv eatisfakshun when a man runs fur offla he iz ex pekted to sa sumthing in order tu git tu bee sheruff i cood kepe mi mouth shut and be a nlnetene-sided demikrat but tu talk enny tu speek uv and sute aul kinds uv demikrats iz a fete that iz hard tu du i hav bin thinkln over what kind uv a speach i wood malk in this kampane and have rit out what i am goin tu sa i think it will kiver aul kinds uv demikrata*and not maik rnny uv em mad here iz mi speach in substants gresham'9 remains dtotaterred the remains of ex-secretary â€¢ tate gres-ham were disinterred at 3hic^o thursday for the purpose ol oeing interred at washington v u i$%wwm ha p r iii "*"â– _=*-â€”__? _____=â€¢- â€” v sc^':-'-v -' c>.l \: y s s ts_^iv ; . * v â– %'/â– < ff>?dj f>?_s s-sst-f j_l Â«-_^ â€” -. sfs'-z-r jss /â– â– i y l "*<< 'â– 'â– â– vv f^f f "^ a i____i_f^_3 -_-^ â– - "^ m_?mf ; - / '" ; v Â¥ â€” : f -*. f r - â– '/*! is - - ri ; s __; wffl